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Such an investigation not only reveals a special facet of Musil's oeuvre, but also offers a contribution towards a theory of reading drama, a reading of the printed play as a prefiguration of an enacted event.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003cbr\u003e313 pages\u003cbr\u003eAriadne Press, 1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6 x 9 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780929497594\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Criticism, Drama\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":313119317,"sku":"9780929497594","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Implied-Dramaturgy.jpg?v=1652632251"},{"product_id":"the-man-without-qualities-vol-1","title":"The Man Without Qualities, Vol.1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Robert Musil\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef. This new translation—published in two elegant volumes—is the first to present Musil's complete text, including material that remained unpublished during his lifetime. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis intriguing landmark of modernism from Austrian writer Robert Musil has been newly translated from the German by Sophie Wilkins and re-edited in a textual overhaul. This new edition includes portions of the author's original manuscripts that have never been published before. Though an imposing edifice of writing, devotees of literary modernism and anyone interested in the decline of the Austrian empire must read this sweeping, comic take on life in pre-Great War Vienna.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e752 pages\u003cbr\u003eRandom House Publishing, 1996\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1930\u003cbr\u003e8 x 5 x 2 inches \u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780679767879\u003cbr\u003eHistorical Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":313221169,"sku":"9780679767879","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/The-Man-Without-Qualities-Volume-1_Robert-Musil.jpg?v=1593200167"},{"product_id":"the-man-without-qualities-vol-2","title":"The Man Without Qualities, Vol.2: Into the Millennium","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Robert Musil\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance.\"–\u003cem\u003eNew Republic.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef. 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His\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ediaries\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003ea distillation of forty-three years of material, are valuable in a number of ways: as a first-hand historical document of life in twentieth-century central Europe, as a kind of unwitting autobiography of a great novelist, and as a writer's notebook that details the moods of artistic adventure. Readers will gain keen insights into Musil's passage from scientist, to soldier, to novelist, in honest passages that reveal the man in all his humor, ambition, frustration, and transcendence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e624 pages\u003cbr\u003eBasic Books, 1999\u003cbr\u003e7.5 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780465016518\u003cbr\u003eDiaries, Memoirs\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":7844435951646,"sku":"9780465016518","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Diaries-Robert-Musil-1899-1941_Philip-Payne.jpg?v=1593190233"},{"product_id":"literature-politics","title":"Literature \u0026 Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Robert Musil \u0026amp; Klaus Amann\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Genese Grill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterature and Politics\u003c\/em\u003e presents Robert Musil's writings on the relationship between literature and politics from World War I through World War II and elucidates his personal struggle to bear witness during the Age of Totalitarianism. In essays, addresses, aphorisms, and unpublished notes on contemporary events, Musil charts the increasing dangers to artists and ethical thinkers of extreme ideological conscription, the subtle and not so subtle changes in public and political discourse, the epoch-making events and dire existential threats of his times. Musil acts as a cultural seismographer, interrogating causes and symptoms in himself and his world, as he moves between Nazi Germany and pre- and post-Anschluß Austria, ultimately escaping to Switzerland where he and his Jewish wife, Martha, lived in exile until his death in 1942. The writings question concepts of race, identity, and nation, and untangle the complex relationship between nation and artist and between the individual and the collective, celebrating the rich and irreducible nature of individual creative work as the bulwark of a free, ethical, and pluralistic society.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKlaus Amann provides an invaluable introduction to Musil's political thought and his struggle, during the war years, to come to terms, to survive, and to find some way to bear witness. Amann recounts Musil's political trajectory, from fairly indifferent aesthete to socially-engaged supporter of the Weimar Republic and its liberal reforms, to critic of Nazi and Communist Totalitarianisms, and as prescient sceptic about the \"cultural optimism\" of the Soviet experiment. 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